Woodchuck

Woodchucks... deal with extreme prejudice if you like your veggie garden. I'd suspect bonsai on the ground may be at risk, as well, but can't verify from actual experience. Fwiw, that one has cousins up here that are built for the cold... bigger and fatter :p
 
They do climb. I had one climb up on a picnic table seat and chew on a Pitch Pine trunk I had sitting there, I just happen to walk out in the yard and it ran before it did too much damage.
They are determined once they get a taste for something, almost unstoppable. Mature Zucchini plants can disappear in minutes.
 
I had one take out the bark completely on one side of a landscape Japanese maple - in a single visit. I thought it had killed the tree, but a little lime sulfur and patience and there was enough bark left on the far side of the tree to continue to fuel growth, and it is slowly healing back over the damage.
 
In my experience chucks are spiteful bastards that like destruction for its own sake. I've seen them mow down whole vegetables patches and just leave stuff there uneaten.
 
Just gonna say... they are dumb as rocks. We had one that tried to move into a fox den... while the foxes were still in it. My wife went out and was waving at it "Shoo! Go away!" and all it did was stand up on top of that fox den on its hind legs and give us the stink eye. The next day there were woodchuck parts all over...
 
Cajunrider said:
My coonass question for the locals: are woodchuck good eating?
AI answer is yes but I wanna hear from you. I don’t want to waste time to dress and cook that thing if it isn’t good eating.
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One way to find out. If it's not in the grocery store it's not good/tasty enough to be profitable, in my mind. @19Mateo83 might know I haven't seen his coonass in awhile. ;)
 
Cajunrider said:
My coonass question for the locals: are woodchuck good eating?
AI answer is yes but I wanna hear from you. I don’t want to waste time to dress and cook that thing if it isn’t good eating.
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In either case, either it moves out on its own or I will give it some incentive.
 
They dig, like little Bulldozer. I've seen them dig holes, caves and leave a pile of dirt, rocks and bricks 12 to 15 inches high. If you fill them in and go back an hour later the hole and pile of rocks, bricks and dirt are back. The only way I have found to slow them down it to run a hose in the hole while filling it in but it just slows them down unless you keep doing it then they will go find another spot to dig.
 
Cajunrider said:
My coonass question for the locals: are woodchuck good eating?
AI answer is yes but I wanna hear from you. I don’t want to waste time to dress and cook that thing if it isn’t good eating.
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I heard that they're best when stewed overnight with onions, then you throw the meat away and drink the soup.....
 
Russ1 said:
They dig, like little Bulldozer. I've seen them dig holes, caves and leave a pile of dirt, rocks and bricks 12 to 15 inches high. If you fill them in and go back an hour later the hole and pile of rocks, bricks and dirt are back. The only way I have found to slow them down it to run a hose in the hole while filling it in but it just slows them down unless you keep doing it then they will go find another spot to dig.
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When I was a kid,farmers would pay us to shoot them. Their burrows broke cows’ legs when the cattle stepped into them. So you set up on a hill at the wood line on a pasture with your .243 and scope and played Seige of Leningrad…$3 per chuck
 
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